Why travel at all? If you basically like where you live, why leave?
Good question, one I ponder at times. Obviously, the basic answer is "Travel if you enjoy it." Kind of lame, but real I guess. I thing some travel so they have cocktail party convo. "I loved Phuket, you should go!!!". Meh. Probably not a lot of those around here. Another is of course to see places you've read about, often they look different than you imagined, for better or worse. You might like various museums. Trying "real food" can be fun. Meeting foreigners of course is interesting often as not. "They" can be quite different individually from characatures.
I like touring battlefields (my wife not so much). The layouts are nearly always very different from what I imagined from the books. The Normandy beachheads were quite different for example, Waterloo different because the landscape was "scraped" to create a monument to a prince who basically flubbed the thing. Gettysburg was both more spread out and more compact than I had realized from maps in books.
I like some museums, some are just overwhelming to me. I either want to spend a week there or just leave and never return.
My wife and I were chatting yesterday about how nice it is to be home, which is a good thing, we like it here. We were stuck here in COVID and it mostly was fine once things started opening up. We had several trips delayed.
We didn't engage in "travel baseball" when my kids were young. That sounds exhausting, to me. Traveling to play golf sounds like a neat thing, if I still played golf, and it can be pricey of course.
Why do you like to travel, if you do?
